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running round the press critics question the validity of the suspects recent confessions. that were us the shuttle program almost over the top economic situations training space research some say the american dream of reaching the stars is over one man still believes that where there's a will there's a way but what william is one of those behind the don'ts of the hubble space telescope things humankind will still make its way into space specialty is up next . mr williams thank you very much for being with us today it's an honor sir my pleasure the audio problems images security basically it's funding and it's a place. to think of beautiful ideas do you have a better chance of being successful by them and that is that aren't that pretty. no
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i would say well it's always nice to look at beauty. but in fact. as far as the scientific value of hubble is concerned or trying to understand the universe and beauty is one of those things maybe you've heard the expression and the beauty is in the mind of the beholder and so in fact what i see beauty and sometimes is a picture that other people might not consider a beautiful but that reveals the answer to some important question like how stars form how galaxies form and so to a scientist the beauty is a totally different thing the fact that hubble produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding of hubble and of course that's important for we scientists that's exactly what i meant and so in that sense yes it is important in fact i can tell you. in the united states maybe in many
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countries schoolchildren tend to be fascinated by certain things they're fascinated by dinosaurs for fifty years now if you would go to a typical classroom in the united states and look at posters on the wall you would see pictures of dinosaurs for the first time last year pictures from hubble space telescope occurred more often than dinosaurs on the walls of the classrooms of america that. that is quite an accomplished so thank you children for funding to help both well in fact that's true but there are we've had service in missions to the hubble. five of them actually and the last one there was a lot of questioning because the economy was having problems whether or not it should go ahead there were some committees that actually recommended against the final servicing of hubble in fact it was the public the american public that in sr that hubble should be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another
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five to ten years so the public has actually helped save the life time with bob or extended could you validate how his contribution to science on one hand and narcisse p.r. on the other hand what impact has it had there related nasa has done a good job of publicizing hubble but in fact i don't think that's really the key to success as we all know you can try to publicize something that doesn't really have much value and you don't succeed i think holborn really has done a remarkable discovery machine and because of that it has been very easy for nasa to. be successful in its p.r. of the telescope i just mentioned they were going to speak to the apollo eight crew members and i when i was that they brought back the shot of the earth right now you
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see responsible for perhaps the most sensational photographs of the skies and who really got it from pointing hubble at nothing how much of a company was it a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker and marlise when i was a child first thing i did when i got my first job after school was to deliver newspapers i saved up money and got a telescope i was interested in astronomy even at that age twelve years old first thing i did was on the dark night i took it out to see how far i could see. fifty years later when i became director of the institute that operates hubble space telescope it seemed to me to do the same things i had to figure we looked to see just how far out that could see galaxies. there had been some studies scientific studies done before the launch of hubble trying to predict the important scientific problems that it would help solve and imaging distant
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galaxies was not one of them and there were valid reasons why many astronomers thought that hubble would do many great things but it probably would not make much of a contribution in studying distant galaxies i question that. and i thought it was sufficiently important that i was willing to take a recess and point hubble at. what i called an undistinguished spot in the sky for ten four days to see what it could see. some prominent scientists were very worried about this because we did this just after hubble had been repaired you know for the first three years of its existence there was a flaw and in the mirrors that needed to be corrected and so the american public was very upset about that hubble space telescope at the time of its launch was the most expensive scientific project in history. two and run half
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a billion u.s. dollars very expensive and it was not working for three years the astronauts repaired it famous servicing mission very successful perhaps the greatest and moment in nasa is history except for the moon landing. and so. it was very worrisome to many people that right after the service a mission on one hundred people had been opposed to the telescope because it wasn't working and here's some crazy astronomer was going to try to see if he could image distant galaxies and they were afraid that i would get no results and if that were true then the public would really be opposed to the telescope but i thought it was worth a scientific methods you know. fortunately i had a very good team of young scientists helping me and of course it didn't work out
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so there's a story here it is important to take scientific risk but that's my question what i mean it's a huge shift from what you described a huge amount of money that could have been so many const more than prose what role do you think intuition or is it is that reason partly no it was that's a good question actually it was intuition. that's in. i in my science i do tend to rely on my intuition probably too much actually because i can point to times in my scientific career when i had a hunch we call it you suspect something and i followed it and it turned out not to be productive in the case of the. in the case of the field it was productive and you know it it's true in life that if you're going to make really interesting discoveries something that's unexpected you do need to be respected and
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i guess i like to go for the big discovery and so i'm willing to take a risk even though the majority of the time perhaps you come up with nothing very interesting so it's a style that that is a personal style that scientists have some people are not such risk takers they can be very successful i happen to be a risk taker. and i certainly had some failures that turned out to be a success and i think it was definitely worth it now i was ninety five when you revolutionized the visuals of the science i mean for us for ordinary people it was a revolution of the visuals and the science and you said the chance you took away it's what scientists and space researchers now candy take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tight. it's becoming more difficult when funding is in sure there is greater pressure to come up with the results and of course it's very it's much easier to come up with a result when you don't take a risk when you're doing something where you already know it's likely to give you
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a positive result but of course the great discoveries are those in which you are completely unexpected and therefore you cannot anticipate and i believe for the progress of science it is essential that there be risk takers and i think it's important for the people in the political world who fund. it's a scientific project to realize that it is important for the march of science for the march of human knowledge that a certain amount of risk taking be undertaken just to make sure one more time for you this odyssey of the humble what's more important the facts or the issue with that that that's mind boggling for us. the facts the facts yes so what's more important is it more important for you to see a beautiful picture and we can say that that's art and that's important words are more important for you to realize that there's
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a discovery that tells you something about the origins of life even if that image is not pretty i would say it is the increased understanding of the universe that comes even from an image that is not very pretty to me that has much more of value then something that is beautiful although that of course does have value itself but you ask me as a taxpayer. that depends upon your values do you value art and the pick being something that is beautiful more. fundamental understanding you also said that we're now experiencing the cold age of astronomy still of that opinion lately you are in with budget cuts yeah because this extends over a period of of sun years we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk about the the space
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missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories in the new technological developments that are the neighborhood us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced or understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy about paul stars quads arms. and the existence of planets around other stars in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion of knowledge about things and then largely is due to important technological developments so they've all come together to cause this large number of discoveries that i would say really thinks it appropriate to call this age a golden era of astronomy but what do you think how both crowning achievement will be i actually think that it is produced many interesting scientific discoveries i
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believe the crowning achievement of the hubble space telescope will be the fact that it made the public aware of the universe and the fact that we can understand it and the fact that humans are part of the universe and evolved from it i believe that it's nobbles crowning achievement thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. please. just sleep is.
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meter springboard and qualify for the london olympics and good process if you're losing only to chinese rivals. first appearance and world championships. and as i'll take a look at how the overall standings look after four days of competition still in steam china who leave their home championships russia though in the best position to challenge the hosts lead while great britain will be only gold medal won by carry on pain in the women's open the wards sankyo on the stories a few days ago. and staying in china where the country's most popular basketball player has retired from the sport yeah i mean officially calling it a career at a news conference a few hours ago in a time and be all star was forced to quit sport after missing two hundred fifty games in the cost six years to use a recurring leg and flew the injury is the third. year old was a household name in his home country before starting his and being korea with the
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houston rockets that's all draft pick in two thousand and two leads to all this player has spent eight seasons in america becoming one of the best known chinese athletes ever. now it's been a tough couple of years for test cricket the long form of the sport experiencing the waning attendance coupled with having crazed viewership of its way in since wednesday but the international cricket council believe they have the solution in the form of a new competition named the world to ask championship for some time though we've been working on. called it the world just championship we've always said that it's not the format that is the issue it's the lack of context so by a little bit of a meeting if you were spotting who you were playing towards something at the end. and it's not common knowledge that we hope for that introduces the top four will be involved in the playoffs which will be to see the photos of the final which will determine it will distribute now an amazing achievement in athletics where also up
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a story is also known as bladerunner has qualified for the upcoming world championships in south korea the double amputee needed to call it forty five points when c five seconds in the four hundred meters to make it there but the south africans is even better surpassing that knowledge wise zero point eight hundred seconds. meaning that so many poor old could now take part in both the world finals in the oldest and that's why it's well the summer olympics in london. and now let's move on to a sport that's not competitive but nonetheless popular with more than youth barcoo or all three running has been made famous through the movie industry and is now gaining momentum here in russia and one course if reports. can you call it a sport if your performance is not rated well these three runners don't care what you call there are few who are practitioners also known as tracers are growing in number across europe and the discipline is now making headway in russia as well but
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you can see the development in the guys you can see that you know that they experience in their training and the way they move the strength that sort of thing you can you can visit you know we see that we're every guy if we've been to somewhere and then visited again a few years later we do see a difference in the strength and the ability and confidence of the practitioners normally. edwards regularly travels the world giving seminars and presentations on this being his third visit to moscow his arrival always turns into a great spectacle put on by his russian associates and holds a algal party promoting not only a healthy lifestyle but also raising doubts about the very laws of physics. very important to be able to have complete control over. could also be very practical so you like when you're flying from bad guys assumption if i like what i see here who knows i might join the. russians climate doesn't allow for a year round outdoor parking but that's exactly the words to lofty to overcome an
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obstacle unsurmountable in everyday life. the support of the russians don't have many opportunities to practice park or especially in winter when it's cold and everything is covered with snow despite that i was impressed with their technique and believe it has a future here. the global park community truly has no boundaries to the world's youth united under similar slogans and that's to be healthy in body and spirit through detainments of flexibility reflex coordination and most importantly self discipline remarkable for a party. and finally to one of the most dissolvable so. nickols a let's take a look now at how the united arab emirates called them banal some of golan a seven civic joba lebanon and then some national friendly the elbow wanna wasn't quite a surprise at all that those in goalkeeper producing the most innovative i'll spot
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takes the strategy however drew criticism from his own team manager as my or i shouldn't coach the planets around me on impressed by the keep calling it quote disrespectful amazingly the twenty year old midfielder is now looking at a fine or even suspension meanwhile lebanon coach i mean they're all stone played down the incident of missing it can very guarded as an insult. both of the moments coming up next is the well the out of them carry will bring you the news happening. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. down the official ante of the creation kewaunee phone on called touch from the i choose our. the job she lives on the go.
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